Ratna Amin is a Principal at Deutsche Bahn Engineering and Consulting USA, the North American consulting subsidiary of Germany’s national rail operator.
Previously, she was a Transportation Policy Director at SPUR, the Bay Area’s leading urban policy organization. Her areas of focus include public transit, land use and transportation integration and systems change. In 2014, Ratna published SPUR’s first transportation policy report about Silicon Valley, Freedom to Move. More recently, she published Seamless Transit, an agenda to address the Bay Area's transit fragmentation problem...
Mark Dowd has extensive policy experience in transportation, technology, climate, and environmental matters. He currently serves as the Director of Zero Emission Vehicles and a senior member of the President Biden’s Sustainability Team at the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Mark is leading the effort to transition the largest fleet in the world to 100% zero emission vehicle acquisitions by 2027 (light-duty) and 2035 (medium- and heavy-duty). He recently led an effort to transition the Postal Service to 100% electric delivery vehicles by 2026. Prior to joining the President’s...
Steve Heminger was recently appointed to the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Board of Directors.
He formerly was the Executive Director of MTC and responsible for the administration of more than $2 billion per year in funding for the operation, maintenance and expansion of the Bay Area’s surface transportation network. As chairman of the Toll Bridge Program Oversight Committee, Mr. Heminger also oversaw construction of the new East Span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge — the largest transportation project in California history.
The multifaceted sports and entertainment executive Taj Tashombe, is the Vice President of Government and External Affairs for the Oakland A’s. Tashombe oversees political, business and community engagement for the A’s groundbreaking pursuit of a $12 Billion waterfront ballpark and community development project in Oakland.
Tashombe has also amassed over 18 years of experience as a brand marketing executive, producer, artist and co-founder of ‘All Black Excellence’ a new production company focused on storytelling of the black diaspora. His career has included producing strategic...
Johanna Zmud is an internationally recognized expert in transportation technology and emerging mobility and a Principal at RSG, a research, analytics, and strategic insights firm. For decades, she has led the application of survey science to travel behavior data collection to understand important phenomena, such as transportation mode choice, and to ascertain developing trends, such as the propensity to use automated vehicles. In 2016, she was named as a...
